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Saturday, April 16, 2011

It's Was My Birthday Yesterday, so Let's Go to Hood River

In my world, that makes sense, anyway. Yesterday -- yes, U.S. income tax day -- was my birthday. My father was an accountant. It couldn't be helped. And because, dagnabit, they still make you work on your birthday, the whole birthday thing didn't really get started until I got home and we could go out to dinner, then have some cake at the Konditorei, (nom!), then have some presents. Books, books, books, about my three obsessions: fiber arts, gardening, and cats (that the LOL Cat Bible on top: "In teh beginning, Ceiling Cat maded teh skies an teh earfs an stuffs.")

Just coincidentally, this weekend was the very first Columbia Gorge Fiber Festival, so of course I had to go, being my birthday weekend and all. First the day started with some knitting friends who took us out to breakfast, which was extremely sweet of them. Then we headed to Hood River to have a look at some fiber.

Maaan, most of my pictures came out blurry, but I have a few that turned out so-so. Hubby had his camera, so I'll have to wait for him to process all of his shots.

We lunched at the hotel at the Best Western that hosted the event, and had a lovely view of the Columbia River and the gorge -- and the lovely spring weather, so generous with its liquid sunshine:

This is what a good hubby who entertains himself with a photography hobby while I go and entertain myself with the fiber and yarn looks like:

I was good, though. There were many temptations, but I couldn't possibly knit or spin fast enough to keep up with everything that I wanted to bring home. I wanted some alpaca roving and found that at Cherry Hill Alpacas -- I even got to look at a picture book of the alpacas that each bag of roving came from. I also got two hand-dyed stacks of silk hankies and a small project bag.